Skip bombed from 200 feet a Japanese 4000-to ship, described as a freighter-transport, was set ablaze by an American Liberator ...
Article : 577 wordsThe Hotel Daniell is to be taken over by the Federal Government as an officiers' transit hostel to be conducted by the Australian Defence ...
Article : 154 wordsThe biggest salvage feat in Australian history was completed recently. This was the raising of an Allied freighter which sank in 30ft. of ...
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Family Notices : 301 wordsThe Railway Department proposes constructing five lines across the Aplin-street crossing and on account of the traffic which will be ...
Article : 491 wordsThe Central Cane Prices Board resumed its sittings at the Cairns Court House yesterday when an application for a transfer of an ...
Article : 1,088 wordsA consignment of choice small grained maize at Roma-street to-day brought 6/8½. Other lines realised 6/3½ to 6/2½. Lucerne chaff cleared at 12/- to 6/9. A ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,091 wordsWhen he was riding a bicycle yesterday Jack Waite was struck by an empty beer cask which, fell off a passing truck. He received Ambulance ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Health Inspector (Mr. D. V. J. Glasgow) reported at the monthly meeting of the Cairns City Council last night on the dengue fever and ...
Article : 101 wordsFor outstanding leadership and dogged resistance against determined enemy attacks in New Guinea, Major Keith Reid Walker, of Sandringham. ...
Article : 131 wordsDecisions for an intensification of the drive against venereal disease, tuberculosis and other diseases, and to meet nutrition problems, are expected to be ...
Article : 146 wordsLast night four cadets from No. 63 Squadron A.T.C., Cairns, were presented with their proficiency certificates. The recipients were Cpl. ...
Article : 100 wordsThoughtful people who make estimates concerning this and that have stated that if all foreign workers were suddenly removed ...
Article : 655 wordsIn reply to a letter sent by the Cairns City Council to Lieut-Colonel F. R. Watson, of the Department of War Organisation of Industry, ...
Article : 100 words"Seventeen of the 32 Catholic Missions in the Pacific are now in the hands of the Japanese, and in the last six months one bishop and several ...
Article : 448 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Cairns City Council last night the City Inspector (Mr. D. V. J. Glasgow) reported that regular collections of ...
Article : 474 wordsNotification has been received from the Railway Department, Cairns, of the following transfers and promotions: —5th Class Assistant Stationmaster L. ...
Article : 122 words"The demands being made on the Barron Falls hydro-electricity scheme, coupled with the difficulty being experienced in procuring additional plant ...
Article : 261 wordsSergeant T. Jenks, of the Queensland police force, who for 7½ years has been stationed in the Innisfail district, and for some time in charge of the ...
Article : 144 wordsArmy casualty lists issued to-day contain the names of the following Queenslanders:— OVERSEAS. ...
Article : 90 wordsAt the meeting of the Cairns City Council last night the Mayor (Ald. W. A. Collins) said that a letter had been sent to Lieut-Colonel Watson ...
Article : 148 wordsAn Air Ministry communique says that Beaufighters, escorted by Spitfires, attacked an enemy convoy off the Dutch coast last night A large supply ship ...
Article : 91 wordsThe jury to-day returned a verdict for the "Sun" in an action in which Harley Matthews, a vigneron of Liverpool, claimed damages for libel. The hearing ...
Article : 120 wordsSince the war began the ingenuity of housewives has been taxed, "making do" with anything that was obtainable and learning to cook and dish ...
Article : 184 wordsEvery bone was broken in the body of William Richard O'Reilly (41), of Castlemaine, whose body was recovered to-day at the bottom of an 80 ft. mine ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Full Court to-day reserved judgment in the appeal by Earney Archibald Sellars (27), a farmer, against his conviction by Mr. P. ...
Article : 113 wordsAlthough progress has been made in overcoming the shortage on the staffs of both public and private hospitals in respect of nurses and domestics, ...
Article : 291 wordsSpeaking in Washington Surgeon-General Parran told the Appropriations Committee that an examination of men aged between 21 and 35 for ...
Article : 94 wordsThe majority of the shops in Cairns at present are trading on restricted hours, as many shoppers have found to their disappointment when they ...
Article : 193 wordsThe case was called at the Court of Petty Sessions this morning, before Mr. L. H. Mansell, S.M., in which William Alfred David Keyes, an officer of ...
Article : 124 wordsParticulars of a case of suspected anthrax from a station in Southern Central Queensland were received to-day [?] the Flying Doctor Service, Sydney. ...
Article : 121 wordsAt Washington, Doctor Dyer, of the Public Health Service, told the Approp[?] Committee that a new unidentified disease, with a high mortality rate, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Victorian police [?]ave handed over to the American authorities an Allied serviceman who was arrested for an assault on Mrs. Elizabeth Stretton, ...
Article : 100 wordsIn the report of the Babinda Fire Brigade Board meeting published in "The Cairns Post" on Saturday, June 12, accounts passed for payment are ...
Article : 41 wordsProbate has been granted of the will of Dorothy Evelyn Lawrence, of Wrotham Park, near Mungana, who died on March 25, 1942. to her ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Wed 16 Jun 1943, Page 4
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